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Lipson also doesn’t believe criminals or those who would use the guns for sinister reasons would print one instead of simply buying a cheap conventional handgun. But even a working pistol that will fire enough rounds to kill someone could be enough to break gun control at the sale point — skipping around rigorous background checks and restrictions on high-capacity magazines.

“Criminals have other channels to get guns, but I am really more concerned about hobbyists and enthusiastic kids trying this route at home and actually injuring themselves in the process of doing that,” Lipson says. “If you make one and got it in the wrong temperature or was shoddy in any way, it’s actually dangerous to fire.”

This is a problem for Defense Distributed. The group has been cautious to note that “melting and failing in your hand will be a concern,” according to the group’s website. Hence the need for a lot of testing.

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People have been handloading since the firearm was introduced. This jerk uses new technology to break a law and get attention. He wants the new tech to be legal, and illegalize what is constitutionally protected.

Home brew powder? A bat of cotton from the drug store, nitric acid, chemical supply store, a little sulfuric acid, same place and some nail polish remover or acetone.
Put the cotton in the nitric with a little sulfuric acid to take up the moisture. Let dry. Dissolve in acetone, let it dry and you have a fairly powerful granular explosive. Would it work? Yes, I think it would.
There are additions and improvements but it gets more complicated.

Sure, without ammunition, you won’t realize your plastic firearm is stupid and dangerous. So it restricts everyone else, but what’s a little inconvenience to millions in order to protect yourself from thousands of lawsuits from stupid pseudo hipsters missing all of the fingers from one hand.

The government can’t stop people from printing gun parts at home, and neither can 3D printer manufacturers. Free people are already designing 3D printers that can replicate their own parts to create more 3D printers that the government and corporations can’t control.

People have been handloading since the firearm was introduced. This jerk uses new technology to break a law and get attention. He wants the new tech to be legal, and illegalize what is constitutionally protected.

That’s a libiot for ya’.

cozmo on February 19, 2013 at 7:21 PM

No one broke any laws. It’s the professor calling for gunpowder regulation, not Defense Distributed. You can download files from Defense Distributed to make an AR-15 lower as well as 30 rd. magazine. There is nothing illegal about that, by law anyone can make a firearm for their own use if they aren’t a felon.

I wonder how hard it is to make modern smokeless powder. I’m not a chemist but I suspect some of the people who make meth and other drugs might also have the capability to whip up a batch of smokeless powder instead. Perhaps the raw components are too heavily regulated, but thanks to the ruling class’ open borders policy gun powder shouldn’t be hard to smuggle in, as others have pointed out.

Even if they can ban it: while it may not be as efficient as gunpowder, freedom fighters of the future might have to wear compressed air tanks on their backs to power their high caliber pellet guns that may be approximately as deadly and accurate as weapons today.